Kenneth Hesketh: Wunderkammer (konzert)

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although Hesketh (b.1968) might not always manage the haunting uncanniness found in British contemporaries such as Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin or Thomas Ades, he rarely lapses into mere exoticism. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

Release Date: 25th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: NMCD186
Label: NMC
Length: 64 minutes

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Hesketh: A Rhyme for the Season

Work length4:49

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Recorded: 13 July 2012
Recording Venue: Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Hesketh: Ein Lichtspiel

Work length12:02

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Ensemble 10/10
Clark Rundell
Recorded: 12 June 2009
Recording Venue: Liverpool Philharmonic Friary, West Everton, United Kingdom

Hesketh: Graven Image

Work length15:02

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Recorded: 13 July 2012
Recording Venue: Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Hesketh: Wunderkammer (konzert)

Work length27:14

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Ensemble 10/10
Clark Rundell
Recorded: 13 July 2012
Recording Venue: Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

I. The Grand Ordo of Hephaestus' Children

Track length10:58

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II. Karakuri in the Temple of Athene

Track length9:23

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III. Escapements Within the Cartesian Machine

Track length6:53

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Hesketh: At God Speeded Summer’s End

Work length5:50

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$3.85

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Recorded: 12 June 2009
Recording Venue: Liverpool Philharmonic Friary, West Everton, United Kingdom

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We are delighted to be releasing on NMC the first full-length CD devoted to the music of Liverpool-born Kenneth Hesketh.

The title work Wunderkammer(konzert) is a three movement chamber concerto which reflects the character of the wunderkammer, or Cabinet of Curiosities that flourished between the 16th to 18th centuries.

Graven Image is inspired by the medieval Memento Mori, a painting or sculpture which seeks to remind its owner of the brevity of life and At God Speeded Summer’s End uses melodic ideas influenced by the structure of Dylan Thomas's poem Prologue. In Thomas’ own words: ‘The first and last line rhyme; the second and last but one; and so on and so on. Why I ackrosticked myself like this, don’t ask me.’

Kenneth Hesketh began composing whilst a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral, later studying at the Royal College of Music. He attended Tanglewood in 1995 where he studied with Henri Dutilleux and was subsequently awarded a scholarship from the Toepfer Foundation at the behest of Sir Simon Rattle. He is now a professor at the Royal College of Music and honorary professor at Liverpool University.

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July 2013

although Hesketh (b.1968) might not always manage the haunting uncanniness found in British contemporaries such as Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin or Thomas Ades, he rarely lapses into mere exoticism.

5th July 2013

The considerable surface complexity of his elaborate rhythmic is unfailingly refracted through a remarkably acute ear for sonority and colour allied with an obsessive preoccupation with textural transparency...a compelling panorama of Kenneth Hesketh’s works for major instrumental forces.

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